[buildd-tools-devel] schroot version 1.3.0 released, testers wanted!

[Jonathan Callen]

Jonathan Callen wrote:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
>> I have released schroot version 1.3.0, which will shortly be uploaded
>> to Debian experimental.  This will undergo further testing and gain
>> a few more features and fixes (see the TODO file) before it enters
>> Debian unstable as a 1.4.x stable series targeted at squeeze.
>>
>> If you are an schroot user, or use schroot with sbuild, I'd really
>> appreciate you giving this a go.  It's been in regular use by
>> developers for several months, and is regarded as being stable and
>> safe for general use.  Once we are happy there are no regressions
>> from the current 1.2.x stable series, we will consider moving it to
>> unstable.  While there are not currently any known problems with the
>> code, it has undergone a number of large changes, and given the
>> number of different ways in which people are using schroot, it's not
>> possible to test every use case out there.  The most likely issues
>> are not being fully backward compatible with the configuration file
>> format used in earlier versions (we aim to be fully compatible with
>> all 1.2.x versions), which should be reported as bugs.
> 
> Hi, I'm the maintainer of schroot in Gentoo, and as I was testing this
> version, I noticed that it FTBFS when --disable-lvm-snapshot is passed
> to configure.  Attached is a quick patch that appears to fix this issue.
> 
> 

It would help if I finished testing my patches first.... Attached is a
new patch that is actually tested to work; unfortunately, it changes a
public api (#ifdef in a public header), and I'm not sure how to properly
handle that.

-- 
Jonathan Callen
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